Waste

[weɪst] or [west]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; 'if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste'; 'mindless dissipation of natural resources'.

(noun.) (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect.

(noun.) any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; 'they collect the waste once a week'; 'much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers'.

(verb.) become physically weaker; 'Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world'.

(verb.) cause to grow thin or weak; 'The treatment emaciated him'.

(verb.) use inefficiently or inappropriately; 'waste heat'; 'waste a joke on an unappreciative audience'.

(verb.) run off as waste; 'The water wastes back into the ocean'.

(verb.) get rid of; 'We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer'.

(verb.) spend thoughtlessly; throw away; 'He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends'; 'You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree'.

錄入:伦纳德--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

(a.) Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.

(a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

(a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

(a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

(a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

(a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

(v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.

(v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

(v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.

(v.) That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.

(v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.

(v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.

(v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

校對:米里亚姆

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Decrease, diminish, wear, corrode, use up, prey upon, wear away.[2]. Consume (foolishly), spend, expend, squander, dissipate, lose, misspend, misuse, fool away, fritter away, muddle away.[3]. Destroy, desolate, ravage, pillage, plunder, strip, ruin, spoil, devastate, sack, devour.

v. n. [1]. Dwindle, wither, pine, perish, decay, be diminished, waste away.[2]. Swale, melt (as a candle), sweal, consume.

a. [1]. Destroyed, ruined, ravaged, spoiled, devastated, desolated.[2]. Wild, uncultivated, bare, untitled.[3]. Worthless, refuse.

n. [1]. Consumption, loss, diminution, decrement, expenditure, wasting, dissipation.[2]. Squandering, wanton destruction, loss.[3]. Devastation, ravage, ruin, rapine, destruction, desolation, pillage, havoc.[4]. Refuse, worthless matter.[5]. Wild, wilderness, desert, solitude, lonely place, deserted region.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Ruin, destroy, devastate, impair, consume, squander, dissipate, throw_away,diminish, impair, lavish, desolate, pine, decay, attenuate, dwindle, shrivel,wither, wane

ANT:Restore, repair, conserve, preserve, perpetuate, protect, husband, economize,utilize, hoard, treasure, accumulate, enrich, flourish, luxuriate, multiply,augment, develop

編輯:史蒂夫

解釋/意思:

adj. empty desert: desolate: useless vain: stripped: lying unused: unproductive.—v.t. to lay waste or make desolate: to destroy: to wear out gradually: to squander: to diminish: to impair.—v.i. to be diminished: to dwindle: to be consumed.—n. act of wasting: useless expenditure: superfluous material stuff left over: loss: destruction: that which is wasted or waste: uncultivated country: desert: refuse as of coal &c.: decay decline: (law) natural but permanent injury to the inheritance.—ns. Wās′tage loss by use natural decay; Waste′-bas′ket Waste′paper-bas′ket a basket for holding useless scraps of paper; Waste′-book a book in which merchants make entries of transactions in order as they occur and for a temporary purpose.—adj. Waste′ful full of waste: destructive: lavish: (Spens.) desolate.—adv. Waste′fully.—ns. Waste′fulness; Waste′-gate a gate for discharging surplus water from a dam &c.; Wās′ten (Spens.) a desert; Waste′ness (B.) devastation; Waste′-pipe a pipe for carrying off waste or surplus water; Wās′ter one who or that which wastes: a spendthrift: a destroyer: an article spoilt in the making.—adj. Wās′ting devastating: enfeebling—(Wasting investments stocks redeemable on a certain date at a fixed price for which a premium above the redemption price is paid).—ns. Wās′ting devastation; Wās′trel refuse: anything neglected a neglected child: (dial.) a profligate; Wās′try (Scot.) prodigality.—adj. improvident.—Waste lands uncultivated and unprofitable tracts in populous and cultivated countries; Waste time to employ time unprofitably or not at all.—Run to waste to become incapable or useless.—Utilisation of waste products the putting to other use of such material as is rendered either wholly or partially useless in the manufacture of articles and products—e.g. waste-silk is now a valuable raw material for a large spun-silk industry.

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